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It's no great secret that I'm a big fan of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its crucial work to help improve our financial literacy and protect us from financial predators. Since I have dedicated much of my c...

Would you max out three credit cards, spend your life savings, and take on loans from family and friends all for some cool website idea? In January 2008 Alec Lynch did just that and started a freelance marketplace in his...

Cybersecurity has risen to C-suite and board level as attacks have become more frequent and more sophisticated.

Folks have spent a lot of time harping on the lessons that the business world can learn from the military. On this Veterans Day, I would like to flip the pistol and ask: What leadership lessons can the military learn fro...

From our "when, not if" department... The Humble Bundle, the distribution network founded as the Humble Indie Bundle by Wolfire Games' David and Jeffrey Rosen, has officially announced the opening of the Humble Store, of...

This article is by Denise Lee Yohn, a brand-building expert, speaker and writer. She is the author of What Great Brands Do:  The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest (Jossey-Bass, January...

A clearly drafted Employment Agreement can set out the obligations and expectations of the company and the employee in a way to minimize future disputes. Here's a checklist of key issues to consider when negotiating an e...

This article is by Jeff Fromm and David Gutting. Fromm is co-author of a new book, "Marketing to Millennials: Reach The Largest and Most Influential Generation of Consumers Ever." Gutting, VP and strategy director at Bar...

Nobody wants to visit a site riddled with malware. If you're one of the businesses that ends up on Google's "blacklist," the news isn't so good.

There are a lot of 'startup incubators' around these days. Probably too many. The standard model requires companies to give up chunks of equity in exchange for funding and three months of office space and mentorship. Mos...

Streaming live on Forbes, Dane Maxwell, Founder of The Foundation Inc, will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) Tuesday, November 12th. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council's #StartupLab initiat...

As I write about the way IT should be done, I'm aware that for those sitting in the trenches of enterprise IT, it's all too easy to justify the status quo and avoid change. While, as I wrote earlier this week, the realit...

Most businesses start small but only the special ones achieve great heights. Here are seven companies that began as tiny acorns but grew (or are growing quickly) into great oaks.

Improve Employee Engagement By Helping Your Managers Get Better. Is the solution to improved employee engagement, helping your managers get better at helping their team to succeed?

Europe, taken together, is a huge market for startups, but national quirks and language barriers stand in the way of founders. One new company thinks they can help.

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Elisette Carlson, the Founder of SMACK! Media, a boutique Marketing and Public Relations agency focused on innovative and authentic brands in sports, health and fitness. We wer...

Armed with a guitar since she was 10 years old, Leora Friedman uses music to brighten the lives of children who are diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. Her father is a pediatric oncologist, and at a young age she ...

In an epidemic that so far shows no signs of abating, crooks have submitted billions of dollars in fraudulent refund claims to the Internal Revenue Service using the stolen names and Social Security numbers of more than ...

KPMG, the global accountant and consultant has announced the formation of KPMG Capital, which will invest in big data and data analytics companies in Europe and beyond.

Joe Thorndike recently wrote an obituary for tax reform and Jeremy Scott did the same for any possible revenue-related deal in the budget conference. As readers of this blog know, I am skeptical when it comes to the chan...

Lending is easy. Anyone can do it. What is difficult is getting the money back. Micro-lenders and micro-borrowers need to aim higher. Billion-dollar entrepreneurs have started with similar amounts of money and built gian...

America's first military, the "Minutemen" militia, were shopkeepers, craftsmen, farmers, etc. Today we call them small business owners, but they were our first veterans.